Long Beach: Team Trans Sport preview

TEAM TRANS SPORT: DARING TO BE DIFFERENT
Just two races into his inaugural American Le Mans Series season, Tim
Pappas is having a blast. His Team Trans Sport, based out of Miami, has run
competitively in its first pair of...

TEAM TRANS SPORT: DARING TO BE DIFFERENT

Just two races into his inaugural American Le Mans Series season, Tim
Pappas is having a blast. His Team Trans Sport, based out of Miami, has run
competitively in its first pair of outings with a Yokohama-shod Porsche 911
GT3 RSR in GT2. Given the depth and experience of the class, Pappas says
his team's approach is quite different from most.

"One of the things we set out to do was working with the 911 RSR package as
it comes from Porsche rather than doing what a lot of people are doing here
in that doing a lot of work on development," Pappas said Thursday in Long
Beach. "We decided we would develop the team from the inside out instead of
throwing away all the pieces and trying to outfox the next guy. Our car is
completely stock as it comes from Porsche."

Pappas will team with sports car ace Terry Borcheller for Saturday's Grand
Prix of Long Beach, as he will for the remainder of the season.

"The idea with Team Trans Sport when we started this is that it's a team
out of Miami with two American drivers," the Boston real estate developer
said. "We're out here to show that you can be competitive on a reasonable
budget, have a great time racing. You don't need to import racers from
Germany or Italy or Brazil to be competitive in this field. There are a lot
of great American sports car drivers and we're glad to be a part of it."

The Grand Prix of Long Beach, Round 3 of the 2007 American Le Mans Series,
is scheduled for 4 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 14. SPEED will provide same-
day broadcast coverage from 8 to 10:30 p.m. ET. MotorsTV in Europe, SPEED
Latin America and 7TV in Russia will carry the race live. American Le Mans
Radio and IMSA's Live Timing & Scoring will be available at
americanlemans.com.